Hudson revealed that he was close to playing the father of the Big Three, but one thing set him back — he didn’t attend the callback to read with Mandy Moore since he already had a 10-day fishing trip planned.

"They wanted me to come and do a chemistry read with Mandy Moore, but this will tell you how much I love to fish," he admitted to Keltie Knight on her May 14th LadyGang podcast. "I had a 10-day fishing trip planned, and it’s my life. Fishing is a big part of my life and it was this 10-day fishing trip."

His agent tried to talk him out of it, but Hudson wouldn’t budge.

"My agent said, ‘We got a test. They really like you,’ and I said, ‘Ooh, I’m supposed to be going on a fishing trip.’ He’s like, ‘OK. So? This is a big thing.’ And I said, ‘You know what? I’m going to do my fishing trip."

Now that’s commitment.

We’re currently trying to imagine Hudson as our beloved Jack — and it’s admittedly tough. We just can’t imagine anyone but Ventimiglia in the role (though to be fair, we initially had our doubts about Jess Mariano playing a dad of three…so who knows).

Hudson admitted that when he first saw the This Is Us ratings, he had a reaction of “oh sh*t,” so we hope he — at the very least — caught a few good fish on that trip.